All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

I believe only in art and failure.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.